Thursday, August 04, 2005

Milk for Sale: A US company wants to buy and sell breast milk. Seems like production would be a major issue, enough to make it prohibitively expensive, as a spokesman for the UK's National childbirth trust pointed out:

'There is a need for more mothers to come forward to give their milk, the whole issue needs to be valued more. I can see both sides of the argument.

'However, I don't think it would work in the UK as it would prove too expensive for hospitals.'

If it's too expensive for them, it's too expensive for the rest of us. Just because an insurance company might pay for it, doesn't mean we all don't pay for it in the long run.